Ads.com, RIP...Joe Boxer Lives On

Ads.com, say it isn't so! What do you mean you "weren't able to raise the funding necessary"? You were a website featuring nothing but corporate commercials, for the love of Rosie! I am so bummed. But at least the reason I went to Ads.com just now is still out there. Joe Boxer just tickles me!

By the way, do any of you use the K-Mart's Bluelight.com internet, or know someone who does? We're shopping for a new low-cost ISP for the folks, neither of which are online much at all. Bluelight even has a local access number for our town - wooo.

Scavengers

Remember the Chevy I listed on eBay for one of Howie's coworkers? Well, it sold offline to one of the people who'd seen the listing, so this fella decided to have us get him a laptop on eBay for his daughter. We bought an a used IBM Thinkpad 600 and had it shipped here so we could get everything configured on it for the friend. The display on that IBM is so much brighter and nicer than the one on my hubby's Micron - you can tell it was a lot better made to begin with.

Well, combine that obvious disparity with the realization that my old Sony monitor is still functional, and what do you get? A scavenger, that's what! Quick as a wink, Howie had his wingback chair and cart re-arranged so the old monitor was hooked up to the Micron and perched atop The Cockpit. Hey, it was easier than carrying it down to the basement. Plus, with the headphones on and the room lights dimmed, it makes for a pretty darned nice movie experience, all curled up in the wingback chair there.